People often believe that future generations will be better off than their predecessors, but that may be a dangerous assumption when it comes to…

Despite advances in health care and quality of life, white middle-aged Americans have seen overall mortality rates increase over the past 15 years,…

The health facts presented by mass media in the midst of a disease outbreak are likely to influence what we remember about the disease, and new…

Resolving epidemics like the Ebola crisis requires a multidisciplinary approach –involving not only public health and medical knowledge but an…

Baltimore, Maryland, and Ferguson, Missouri, share more than being the sites of racial strife over the past year. Both are part of metropolitan areas…

A $10 million gift will create the Daniel Kahneman and Anne Treisman Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy at Princeton, enabling the…

Fatima went into labor with her first child at the age of 16. As is custom in her nomadic community in western Sudan, she planned to deliver the baby…

Sub-Saharan Africans rate their health and health-care systems among the lowest in the world, according to a new report published by Princeton…